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WATCH LIVE: Ramaphosa visits White House after Trump criticizes South African policies

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    -64% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Trump has launched a series of accusations at South Africa's Black-led government, including that it is seizing land from white farmers, enforcing anti-white policies and pursuing an anti-American foreign policy.
40% : WATCH: White South Africans arrive in U.S. after receiving refugee status from Trump Ramaphosa said he hopes to correct what he calls damaging mischaracterizations during the meeting, which is Trump's first with an African leader at the White House since he returned to office.
40% : " WATCH: Trump and Vance blast Zelenskyy in Oval Office meeting, suggesting he needs to be more grateful Ramaphosa said the meeting would focus on trade and normalizing relations and he was not concerned it would become confrontational or that he would be humiliated. "South Africans are never humiliated, are they?
33% : The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning, said Trump also was likely to raise South African race-based barriers to trade and the need to "stop scaring off investors.
32% : South Africa has strongly rejected the allegation and President Cyril Ramaphosa pushed for the meeting with Trump in an attempt to salvage his country's relationship with the United States, which is at its lowest point since the end of the apartheid system of racial segregation in 1994.
27% : 'Kill the farmer' chant The White House official said Trump would also likely impress on Ramaphosa the need for the South African government to publicly condemn politicians who repeat an apartheid-era chant that contains the lyrics "kill the farmer" and "shoot the farmer."
22% : Some in South Africa worry their leader might get "Zelenskyy'd" -- a reference to the public bashing Trump and Vice President JD Vance handed out to the Ukrainian president in their infamous Oval Office meeting in February.
17% : Getting 'Zelenskyy'd' Ramaphosa was also asked if he worried he might be "humiliated" in a public appearance with Trump.
15% : Will Trump stand by the genocide allegation? Trump's criticism of South Africa began in early February in a post on Truth Social when he accused South Africa's government of seizing land from white Afrikaner farmers and a "massive Human Rights VIOLATION" against members of the white minority.
15% : Trump suspended the refugee program.
12% : Trump has directed much of his criticism at Ramaphosa and senior government officials, accusing them of doing "some terrible things.
8% : JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- U.S. President Donald Trump will host South Africa's leader at the White House on Wednesday for a meeting that might be tense after Trump accused the country's government of allowing a "genocide" to take place against minority white farmers.

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